"We are part of a national movement that has a real goal to provide equal educational opportunity for all kids . . . We are trying to capture that history thats digitized and easily accessible for people to learn the lessons and preserve the history."

"Chartering is important. If chartering were a trivial sort of thing and not a fundamental system change, the library wouldn’t be very important. But because the charter idea is so central to the strategy that states have got to follow for the improvement of the system as a whole, the importance of the library rises along with that."